As a parent how to correctly guide the child's gender awareness?

The biological gender differences between males and females are innately determined, but some children do not have gender awareness, which actually needs to be cultivated from an early age so that they will not be vulnerable when they grow up.

Cultivating gender awareness in children can be done by reinforcing gender roles through playmates. Gender roles are behaviors, preferences, attitudes, skills, and personality traits that are considered different for males or females by the culture at large. Gender schema theory suggests that children extract gender-related information from their environment before engaging in gender-specific behaviors, and that once children recognize their gender, they match their behaviors to how the culture thinks boys and girls "should be". Preschoolers often prefer to play with children of the same gender and age. And being around same-gender playmates often reinforces a child's gender roles. However, many only children today do not have brothers or sisters at home, and it is difficult for them to find friends of their own age when they go out. This requires parents to try to find a few regular same-gender playmates for their children, such as neighbors, relatives and friends, classmates and old-timers.

In the child period, the parents of the child's gender education principle is: positively answer every question of the child, no matter how embarrassed parents feel, but the expression should look natural; what the child asks, what to answer, the answer does not exceed the child's questions; unclear questions with the child to read and discuss together; to different age groups of children, the method and degree is different.

If a girl asks her mom: "Why do boys have handles and I don't?" The mom should clearly tell the child, "Girls don't have knobs, boys have knobs, that's the difference between boys and girls."

In fact, before the age of 3, children are not very gender-conscious, and it is only after the age of 3 that children gradually realize that there is a difference between men and women and start to think of themselves as men and women. With a little bit of growing up, the child will gradually form a comprehensive understanding of the male and female dress, behavior, personality traits, and gradually formed the psychological gender.